If you prefer staying inland, the pine-shaded hills of twin villages St. Paul de Vence and Vence have attracted artists since the 1920s, including Picasso, Braque, Miro and Chagall to Derain, Soutine, Signac, Modigliani, Matisse, Dubuffet and Arman.

But none of this group of avant-garde artists from Northern Italy starting in the 1880s had any firsthand experience of the experiments with light and color of Seurat or Signac, though they had similar theories.